How do you find your first job during a health crisis, even though most of the internships have been canceled? This is the question that more and more young people are asking themselves looking for an internship or a first position. The coronavirus caused strong economic contractions and forced companies to cancel or postpone business immersions. Students looking for a graduation internship worry about being left out.
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"The internship is the antechamber of employment"
This is the case of Kévin, a young man of 25 who is finishing his studies in the hotel industry. His internship in a Parisian palace was interrupted by confinement. He was counting on it to be hired. "As you know, in general when you do an internship, you secretly hope to continue in the same establishment. But there, I think it will be a little difficult."
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"I have to wait until things settle down. From September I think, I will take other steps." If the young man intends to persevere, some concern persists. "The internship is the anteroom to the job, I was in the anteroom, the internship stopped, I left the apartment," he laments.
"It can be an asset to have been confronted with this"
For Benoît Serre, vice-president of the National Association of Directors of Human Resources, having completed his studies during the confinement period will not be a stain on the CV of young graduates. "If I find myself tomorrow with a young person like that, it will interest me to know how he managed the period, it will be an opportunity to talk about something other than himself or his studies."
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The professional even sees it as a kind of playing card for the young generation. "It can be a kind of asset in a way, to have been confronted like that, very young, brutally, in a completely new situation." Benoit Serre adds that he hears more and more companies who plan to hire work-study students or apprentices again from September.